Amish Pork And Sauerkraut

28 ways to celebrate New Year's Eve

Take a New Year’s Eve cruise on Lake Erie aboard the Nautica Queen. The package, $75 per person, includes hors d’oeuvres, an unlimited dinner buffet, bottle of champagne per couple, disc jockey, party favors and free parking. Boarding is at 8 p.m., dinner begins at 9, and the cruise is from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. For reservations and more information, visit www.nauticaqueen.com . Popular party band New Wave Nation will pump out danceable MTV hits of the ‘80s starting at 9:30 p.m. Dec. 31 at 356th Fighter Group at 4919 Mount Pleasant St. NW in Jackson Township. Performing simultaneously in the ballroom will be a second band, Midnight Special. Tickets, $25 advance and $30 at the door, include food stations from 9 to 10, party favors, and sauerkraut and pork at midnight. For reservations, call 330-494-3500.  A longtime favorite party band, La Flavour will entertain on New Year’s Eve at Queen of Heaven Church at 1800 Steese Road in Green (off the I-77 Massillon Road exit). Tickets, $50, include a buffet dinner at 7:30 p.m., open bar, dancing to La Flavour from 9:30 to 1:30, party favors, and pork and sauerkraut at midnight. Tickets must be purchased in advance. To order, call 330-494-3500. The audience-interaction mystery-comedy “Clues: The Butler’s Belfry,” based on the classic board game, will be performed by 34-west on New Year’s Eve at the Amish Door on Route 62 in Wilmot. Tickets, $38, include a full Amish-style dinner at 6:30 p.m. For reservations and more information, call 888-AMISH-DOOR. Loni Love, a comedy livewire from the hit E! series “Chelsea Lately,” will take her stand-up act to the Cleveland Improv on New Year’s Eve for shows at 7:30 and 10:30 p.m. Tickets for the early show are $35, or $65 including a prime rib buffet dinner at 6 p.m. plus priority seating. Late-show tickets, $65, include an appetizer platter and champagne split at midnight. For reservations, call 216-696-4677. From 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dec. 31, The Wanderers will provide dance music for the New Year’s Eve celebration at Elks Lodge 68 at 3201 Parkway St. NW in Canton Township. The band features saxophonist Fred Davis (in black), who has performed with Diana Ross, Martha Reeves, Frankie Avalon and the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey orchestras. Tickets, $15 per person, include snacks, pork and sauerkraut, and champagne at midnight. Tickets, $15, may be ordered at 330-453-0105. “The Contraltos: Miami Shore,” an over-the-top audience-participation whodunit that spoofs “The Sopranos,” will be performed New Year’s Eve at the Meyers Lake Ballroom at 3218 Parkway St. NW in Canton Township. Tickets, $59 single or $110 couple, include the show, a full dinner with choice of entrees, soft drinks, dancing, party favors and a champagne toast at midnight. For reservations, call 330-455-5900. On New Year’s Eve, Kent’s venerable Numbers Band, fronted by vocalist-songwriter-guitarist Bob Kidney will takes its blues-rock-jazz sound to the stage of The Kent Stage at 175 E. Main St. in downtown Kent. Rachael & the Beatnik Playboys will open the show at 8 p.m. Tickets, $12, may be ordered at www.thekentstage.com Ryan Gosling stars as an idealistic campaigner for a Democratic presidential hopeful (George Clooney) who gets a shattering reality check in the drama “Ides of March,” which will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 31 at downtown Canton’s Palace Theatre. The cast also includes Marisa Tomei, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Evan Rachel Wood and Paul Giamatti. Tickets, $15, include a pre-show wine and cheese reception at 6 p.m. in the theater’s upper lobby. Movie-only tickets are $5.

Pork & Sauerkraut | The Amish Cook from Oasis Newsfeatures

The tradition that eating sauerkraut on New Year's cuts across religious boundaries, because the Amish embrace this also.  Someone asked for a recipe for pork with sauerkraut, or as some Pennsylvania Dutch call it " sauerkraut und speck " (Sauerkraut with Pork).  I'm sure Lovina is eating this today and I'm heading over to Rachel's Mom's shortly for my sauerkraut fix.  So, to the person who posted the request, here is the recipe. Enjoy!

 

3 pounds fresh pork

1 tablespoon salt

1 quart sauerkraut

Place pork in a large heavy kettle. Cover with water and add the salt. Simmer for 1 hour. Add the sauerkraut and more water, if necessary.  Continue cooking for an additional hour or until meat is tender. Season with salt and pepper.

This is a very, very simple dish. You can add additional seasonings to your taste. And keep in mind, many Amish will be eating homemade sauerkraut and pork from their own hogs, so this dish will taste extra fresh on an Amish supper table.

add the sauerkraut and start glazing is turning it constantly in the liquid lad/onion mixtur. add 2 table spoons of finely grinded caraway, 1 table spoon of juniper berries, 1 teaspoon sugar and 5 bay leaves. add i glas of dry white wine and 2 green apples ( granny smith)finely chopped. keep glazing the kraut till almost all the liquid has evaporized. then add about 1 litre of chicken stock and let the suaerkraut simmer for about 1 hour.

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 The only way I know Kraut is with sugar...my mom made it that way. It cuts some of the acidity and gives it a little tanginess.  The other people at the hospital would think I was weird when we ate in the cafeteria and I was dumping sugar packets in my sauerkraut!  LOL

I usually make this our New Year's Day meal.  It is delicious.  Often times though I will make it in my crockpot, placing the sauerkraut on the bottom.  Add a bit of onion to taste as well as a good cooking apple and you are ready to go!  For the rest of our traditional meal, some nice hot homemade mashed potatoes and cold applesauce makes dinner complete.

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